Oneirohero

I'm going to miss Galaxy City in it's current state, my very first heroes came from that city too. :<

You could give the hurl animation little scripts that say "If you're out in a city zone, [Hurl] spawns /these/ items" then "If in an office, spawn these items instead" And all you need is a generic/legacy version for a place that doesn't fit the usual areas for specific spawning reasons.

It's less damaging to your suspension of disbelief to throw a car around outside than it is inside an office building that's not otherwise depreceated.

But it it were like Propel, I wouldn't be too bummed about it. I would stick with the rocks :P

Like I mentioned in another thread, one possible solution to the freebie player's tell situation is allowing them to send tells to friends.

Nobody friends an RMTer, not unless they're a masochist.

Sure they can't exactly send tells to strangers but it would make tells more useful for free players while keeping the spammers out.

Seems a bit futuristic, but I found a solution to the statue issue, make them holographic!

If they're holographic then you could have a statue as big as 30ft tall and there would be no collision-detection issues, you'd just pass through it.

Could always have the statues rotate depending on who is in the zone, you don't always have to see your own character for it to work, it's kind of like the random praise from citizens, sometimes it's better to hear it every once in a while to make it seem like they care when you feel nobody does

I do agree that free players do need a bit more communication support to get involved in the game, but I also agree that it shouldn't allow RMT crap to get through either.

I think the Helpers idea is pretty good and does actually improve the helper's ability to help people long distances. But I also think that FRIENDS are allowed to send tells to each other regardless of account status. This bit is important because you might not want to be in helper status all the time where RMTers might take advantage of you, or you may even develop a friendship with a free player and don't want to have yourself limited just because they can't talk back wherever they are.

You're certainly not going to friend an RMT spammer, so it fixes that issue.

My hope is that it is City of Heroes 2.0 than CoH 2, like people have mentioned before, sequels don't often take off for MMOs and can actually kill itself, CoH /might/ do better depending on how well the sequel was made and also being the only good Superhero MMO on the market.

But if they could keep their existing assets but allow the designers to be more creative, the powers to be more flexible, and other things that a new engine could provide. It's not like the current game is broken, a new engine could allow more different things to do that keep people playing.

The attachment to characters is quite important, it's almost like no matter how many alts you make, more than 80% of them would make you sad if you ever had to leave them behind.

Well, unnecessary usage of powers to lag up the place is pretty annoying, regardless of if you are a roleplayer or not. You're not going to need fire auras or stealth mists just to sell some salvage or buy inspirations.

I haven't had first hand experience with being an incarnate, but I believe such powers only work from Lv45 and above, otherwise the incarnate abilities including level shifts are turned off for the purpose of exemplar you down to the level of the team or 'force you're on.

But old content could also mean the high level 'force content like Statesman and Recluse. They technically do have difficulty options to make them harder so it's not like they can be too easy if you don't want them to. As of Issue 20 the highest level shift is around +3.

But then you also have to consider that being an Incarnate is transcending yourself to a higher league of power, at the end you're supposed to be capable of soloing several massively powerful AVs and giant monsters in the same around (a la future incarnate you when unlocking the Alpha slot).

Signature heroes and villains are already Lv54, the Incarnate system is a way for players to be just a epicy and signaturey as they are, and more!

I'd love to see all or even some of those ideas to be done when Power pool customisation gets a pass, but there's just one thing.


Not a booster, please not a booster!


This kind of thing is reserved for when they do it in normal issues, much like the alternate animations for Blasts, Manipulation and Assault powersets we're getting with Issue 19. As a person who brought almost all the boosters myself and is willing to buy more, I cannot agree that things like these should be locked out to those who can buy it.

I'd like to see Craftable temporary powers improved too, especially for one character who uses only temporary powers as his means of self-defence. Considering they're uncommon editions to someone's recipe list I'd want them to at least reach around about power-pool strength effects. I mean a baseball bat does more damage than a revolver? Pssh...!

Temp powers can give heroes and villains abilities that would otherwise be impossible to take. Does Batman go into a villain's hideout without his gadgets when gameplay wise he'd most likely be a Martial-Arts/Super-Reflex character?

People ignore temp powers much like they ignore powers like Brawl and the origin-permatemps. But when they're sucking on air after using all their end-expensive powers or can't reach that out-of-the-way Longbow flier, I'm the one laughing in the end.

A suggestion to empower some or all of the craftable temporary powers? I'd have to say /signed

The overpower issue is exactly why the developers design story arcs in intervals of five levels. An enemy can have all their powers scale up and down when needed but they have to make multiple versions of the same enemies in order for them to have different powers.

Why do you think groups like the Hellions and Trolls stop at around Lv20, and why groups like the Council start off as gun-toting soldiers and start turning into Science-origin vampires and Werewolves. It's because certain enemies have set powers that don't scale in level and groups that span from 1-50 end up having different enemies spawning in later levels.

Wasn't it in the recent massively dev-diary that up until recently they had to code enemies with multiple copies of the same power just to make them use it as often as intended?

Permanent extra costume slot would be a great idea for a booster-pack I would think. It would mean people could start off at Lv1 with a character's civilian and super-clothing right off the bat, supposedly like real superheroes (and some villains)

Thanks for the extra info on the subject je_saist, I knew nVidia didn't have much to do with Tessellation until recently but didn't quite know how many ATI cards used it. I also didn't know that Ultra-mode was focused on particular OpenGL versions too.

Also, I've managed to recover the missing second video I was trying to link earlier and edited my post as such.

There were some talk about a 'Beast Booster' which would most likely contain animal parts you're talking about. But when that booster will come out, if at all, and if with anything people are looking for, we don't know.

Also expect a bunch of p****s to shoot your suggestion down for being remotely connected to anything furry, even if you're not one. And people shouting "City of furries". Even though some of us have legitimate character concepts that would work amazingly well with animal costume pieces but have to contend with such labels.

The monstrous heads are a bit limited I must agree, I believe the lizard/dragon head is about the best one out of the bunch but none of them are as customisable as the human-shaped heads.

After ordering a new graphics card with DirectX 11 technology (Yes I know City of heroes is OpenGL-run, I'm not implying it uses Dx) and was reading up on the features included and came across a processing technique called Tesselation.

To those who don't know what that means, it's apparently the tiling of a plane or surface by smaller sub-surfaces, which is done on the GPU but can also be enabled on geometry shaders as well, including that of OpenGL except on Nvidia cards (don't know why). The effect of tessellation is that it can make all kinds of models look so much more detailed by physically altering the model to physically appear detailed, not just look detailed from head-on like with Normal maps. One source I found said that Tessellation can not only enhance geometry but also increases performance! Allowing you to render things six times as fast and save more than 50% of your video memory, as well as the bandwidth saved from uploading less geometry. Though I believe those figures are the rendering-times of a tessellated high-quality model in comparison to a high quality model without it.

I've seen pictures and video where you can create mountain ranges through tessellation alone (huge bumps) and also be able to smooth out the outline of objects (like if the Valkyrie shoulder armour was perfectly rounded instead of the barely-noticable breaks in roundness due to resolution size). Where people talk about water fidelity and tessellation they've shown videos where the ocean surface looks practically like it does in real life, no predictable waves or textures.


But here comes the suggestion, with the advent of Ultra-mode, wouldn't it be great if Paragon studios tried to implement uses of Tessellations in their designs? When people complain about graphics they do talk about old models and such, why not use tessellation to add some extra physical detail to these models? Why not make the old flattish buildings stand out more with details? Round out purposefully roundish models, maybe even character faces with rounded eyeballs that don't end up stretching around when you mess with the brow slider? Since Ultra-mode is seen as optional into playing the game, wouldn't Tessellation give this game a bit of a graphical boost while not creating massive loads in comparison to other games?

I'm not exactly a hardware/software technical person so I don't know how practical it would be to consider Tessellation into the game, and I really hope people read this paragraph and don't faceplant me for suggesting something I don't completely understand. But the basic benefit of Tessellation is that basically you can make smaller models appear just as good as regular models and make regular models even more detailed than you could reasonably transmit over a network like an MMO.

But basically what I'm saying is, Tessellation for City of Heroes?

Nothing holiday related from me, but one of my friends who I really wanted to play that weekend couldn't play with me because of unlucky timing.

My first friend's graphic's card blew up on him, and since he's biased towards graphics and his hard-drive was buggy he decided not to play CoH until his card got replaced. Which was a shame because he was looking forward to playing again too.

Ah, thank you all for your responses. I looked all over the forums but only got results on 'Ultra mode starts with blahblah card' but I didn't see anything about things like DirectX or OpenGL.